Re: sendmail

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Date: 10/20/02 

Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:28:45 +1000

"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message
news:aontv5$oa93f$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de...
> Oops! "Jesús M. NAVARRO" <jesus_navarro@undominio.net> was seen
spray-painting on a wall:
> > Christopher Browne wrote:
> >> After takin a swig o' grog, Jon Portnoy <avenj@oppresses.us>
belched out...:
> > [...]
> >>>Jeez. Have some respect for privacy - don't monitor your user's
email.
> >> They are using an email system paid for by the employer, and are
> >> being
> >> paid to compose that email.
> >> It does not seem appalling for the company to consider that the
> >> resulting messages are the intellectual property of the company.
> >> Every email thus written is a "work for hire."
> >> If employees want to send private email, they can do so at home,
> >> using
> >> their own Internet connection, on their own time.
> The computer belongs to the company.
>
> The network belongs to the company.
>
> And it's more than likely that the company could be liable for legal
> sanctions if the company /doesn't/ have some way of monitoring
> corporate email.
>
> It is quite common, for company computers to have, as part of the
> personal authentication process when you log onto the network, some
> disclaimer about the possibility of your actions being recorded.

Quite true. As long as they tell you that you are going to be
monitored, then they can do it. The employee has to legally accept the
fact that they may be monitored, so a clause in the agreement along
the lines of the following would be necessary:
"By continuing to use the computing resources of the Company, you are
agreeing to the AUP mentioned above"

with some buttons below it "I Accept" and "I Decline". If they
decline, then they get logged out (or the login process is cancelled).
The wording in that statement isn't the best, probably better if it
was written by a lawyer :)

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